scholarly journals Oriental Marco Polo Plaza Encounter: Choreographing Place and Placelessness from a Phenomenological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6159
Author(s):  
Huihui Gao ◽  
Shangyi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Historical Period ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Marco Polo ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Insight Into

The notion of place has raised great concern within weaving tourism studies in recent decades. Nevertheless, dialectical indigenous considerations of Edward Relph’s phenomenological concepts of place and placelessness are still insufficient, particularly in non-Western countries. Phenomenology, as an immersive approach, provides an open and descriptive examination of the diverse perceptions and constitutive meanings of a place. From a phenomenological perspective, this article aims to explore the dynamic grasping of place and placelessness in tourism experiences. Twenty-four tourists participated in the research in Marco Polo Plaza in Italian Style Town, a concession for a particular historical period, in Tianjin, China. The findings suggest that tourists’ experiences could be ordered into three themes: (1) encountering a place labelled recreation and entertainment, (2) encountering an exotic heterogeneous place, and (3) encountering a lived place in the lifeworld. These results emphasize that place and placelessness are intertwined paradoxically beyond the binary, and such a nonlinear, dialectical, and subtle dimension is the possible inspiration that the phenomenological perspective brings to tourism research. Drawing on the inevitability of tourists’ diverse perceptions, we advance that an open multi-sensuous engagement and inclusive geographic practices offer an insight into the understanding of sustainability.

scholarly journals Temporality and biography in tourism: a qualitative longitudinal approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Émilie Crossley
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Biographical Research ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Longitudinal Approach ◽  
Tourist Experience ◽  
Potential Applications

Temporality is increasingly being recognised as an important dimension of tourist experience. Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) is a methodology for investigating temporality and change that is rarely used in tourism studies. The approach moves away from reliance on data collected at one point in time and retrospective narratives. Instead, data are generated at multiple points in time, thus capturing experience in the present moment. I situate QLR alongside lifecourse and biographical research in order to show how it can extend existing qualitative enquiry into tourists’ subjective temporal experiences and biographical narratives. ‘Intensive’ and ‘extensive’ QLR designs are delineated and connected to potential applications in qualitative tourism research. Additionally, conceptual clarification is provided regarding use of the terms ‘longitudinal’ and ‘temporal’, which have frequently been a source of confusion. I conclude that QLR has significant potential to advance our understanding of tourist experience, motivation and transformation.

scholarly journals PUBLICATION TREND ON TRAVEL PREFERENCES OF SENIOR TOURISTS FROM 2000 TO 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 172-185
Author(s):  
Nurul Ain Farhana Zainordin ◽  
Syed Muhammad Rafy Syed Jaafar ◽  
Nurul Diyana Md Khairi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Market Segment ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Review Analysis ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Insight Into

The ageing population is the crucial phenomenon that has led to the new market segment in tourism known as 'senior tourists.' A senior tourist is determined as an older traveller or grey tourist. The number of elderly keeps growing throughout time; hence, grey tourists will be relevant preferences, differing from the younger tourists. This paper aims to evaluate the relevant studies regarding travel preferences that involve senior tourists. The objective is to understand the publication trend behind the development of travel preferences for senior tourists. The findings suggest that the overall travel preferences among senior tourists studied include 12 aspects of travel preferences. Researchers tend to focus on the aspect of accommodation among senior tourists compared to the other elements. At the end of the review, this paper is set out to outline the literature review analysis to provide greater insight into the development of travel preferences among grey tourists in tourism research from 2000 to 2020. This paper's output offers future directions to explore the offer trends and future direction in tourism and behaviour literature.

scholarly journals Dark Tourism: Understanding the Concept and Recognizing the Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Ramesh Raj Kunwar ◽  
Neeru Karki
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Dark Tourism ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Tourism Studies

Dark tourism is a youngest subset of tourism, introduced only in 1990s. It is a multifaceted and diverse phenomenon. Dark tourism studies carried out in the Western countries succinctly portrays dark tourism as a study of history and heritage, tourism and tragedies. Dark tourism has been identified as niche or special interest tourism. This paper highlights how dark tourism has been theoretically conceptualized in previous studies. As an umbrella concept dark tourism includes than tourism, blackspot tourism, morbid tourism, disaster tourism, conflict tourism, dissonant heritage tourism and others. This paper examines how dark tourism as a distinct form of tourism came into existence in the tourism academia and how it could be understood as a separate subset of tourism in better way. Basically, this study focuses on deathscapes, repressed sadism, commercialization of grief, commoditization of death, dartainment, blackpackers, darsumers and deathseekers capitalism. This study generates curiosity among the readers and researchers to understand and explore the concepts and values of dark tourism in a better way.

"Hot Issue" Critical Review: The Aboriginalization of Inquiry: Tourism Research by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Damien Jacobsen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Torres Strait ◽  
National Research Program

In this "hot issue" article, Jacobsen argues that even after decades of inquiry the level of Tourism Studies disconnect from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is troubling. He maintains that (relieved of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander voices for so long) the received literature on tourism is still dominated by non-indigenous academics who continue to forge a discourse based on "Othering." The purpose of his critical review article is to substantively engage with the disconnect that seemingly plagues inquiry about tourism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. This Jacobsen piece thereby exposes subtle, overarching misgivings observable in the literature underscored by the presupposed "Othering" of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as "inferior people." This hot issue article therefore moves away from discourses of deficit, inertia, imposed Western-centric theorization, and superficial inquiry towards the Aboriginalization of research-intotourism as inquiry that is emancipative and situated within and emanating from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander worldviews. In providing a number of outcomes from a 6-year national research program in remote Australia, Jacobson reflects on their value as the basis for "leadership" and for "future broad directions." To Jacobsen, the Aboriginalization of tourism inquiry must be based on cultural integrity in order to drive the discourse of enabling, cultural ways of business, and appropriate leadership. This hot issue article thus draws attention to the urgent need for Tourism Studies practice to be genuinely committed to the well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, cultures, country, and knowledge. [Abstract by the Reviews Editor]

Micro-Periodization and Dynasticism: Was There a Divide in the Reign of Ivan the Terrible?

Slavic Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 398-409
Author(s):  
Sergei Bogatyrev
Keyword(s):  
Historical Period ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
Insight Into

In this article, Sergei Bogatyrev offers new insight into the problem of continuity and change during the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible by focusing on the micro-periodization of dynastic history. In modern cultural and historical studies, periodization often includes micro-periods that are based on the perceptions of contemporaries. A micro-period can open a longer historical period, mark dramatic events, or reflect day-to-day activities. Bogatyrev argues that the 1550s was an important micro-period in the dynastic history of Ivan IV's Muscovy. The dynasty was in the center of many political and cultural projects of the 1550s, including the relations between the tsar and his cousin Vladimir of Staritsa, redefining the mechanism of succession, and formulating a dynastic vision of Muscovy's past. The micro-periodization of dynastic history reveals important developments that may be easily obscured by the traditional division of Ivan's reign into good and bad halves.

scholarly journals ‘Tinned Literature’? Literary Discussion in The Brisbane Courier (1930)

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Dale
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Literary Materials ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Australian Literature

To date, histories of literary culture in Queensland have not paid particular attention to newspapers, despite the fact that metropolitan and regional publications carried considerable material that allows us insight into the ways in which books were circulated and evaluated. Reviews and essays sat alongside advertisements run by department stores, specialist retailers, large distributors and newsagents, in turn jostling for attention with interviews with authors, poems, reports of literary gatherings and substantial critical essays. This article offers a ‘case study’ of literary materials in The Brisbane Courier, part of a project on the representation of literature (broadly conceived) in Australian newspapers from 1930. The year 1930 was chosen because the interwar years are so frequently characterised, in discussion of the critical study of Australian literature in particular, as a time of neglect, and the Depression as a catalyst for the gradual narrowing of literary horizons. Our larger aim is to understand this historical period better, as well as to calibrate the discussion of Australian literature against the discussion of literature generally. By focusing on a single year for data collection, we have been able to assemble a rich and detailed picture of ‘talk about books’. This, in turn, has enabled us to analyse the significant differences between, for example, the ways in which books are discussed and represented as commercial and aesthetic objects in regional and metropolitan newspapers (see Dale and Thomson 2010).

Postdisciplinarity and the Rise of Intellectual Openness: The Necessity for "Plural Knowability" in Tourism Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Hollinshead
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
Keynote Presentation ◽  
Social Justice Research ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In this article—which is based on my keynote presentation at the "Welcoming Encounters: Tourism Research in a Postdisciplinary Era" 2013 conference at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland—I maintain that postdisciplinarity is a form of painstaking (in time and effort) inquiry that makes considered use of academic and nonacademic forms of knowing to trace the plural truths that apply in difficult-to-fathom globalizing/decolonizing/postcolonial settings. In this article, I suggest that open-to-the-future postdisciplinary styles of research are critically valuable where a range or multiplicity of interpretive cultural/cosmological outlooks on the world has been poorly understood, and where important longstanding or emergent en groupe perspectives have been ignored or subjugated by governing powers/agencies. In suggesting that those who work in tourism scenarios regularly have to deal with such difficult contestations of value across the globe—where the poesis or the fantasmatics of local/contesting populations are decidedly different—I draw particularly on Gilroy's work on "diaspora" and on Bhabha's thinking on "emergent/hybrid locations of culture" to highlight the sorts of difficult-to-read ambivalent/protean/transgressive identifications that are readily the stuff of postdisciplinary inquiry. The article closes with the recognition that today, postdisciplinary investigators can harness much from the recent liberation in "social justice research practices" that Denzin and Lincoln (and their myriad of diverse critico-interpretive/qualitative researchers) have advocated, notably the advances in "bricoleurship" recently conceptualized by Kincheloe.

Advancing Social Sustainability in Film Tourism

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Buchmann
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Tourism Studies

Film tourism research has produced numerous case studies but little theoretical development. As an example, many film tourism studies report social impacts and further sustainability issues in a trend mirroring the wider tourism literature. This article presents a theoretical approach analyzing the potential and realization of sustainable film tourism. It introduces the notions of social sustainability and discusses its adaptation, concentrating on the case studies of Whale Rider and Lord of the Rings tourism. For this, the study also refers to literature and previous case studies into organizations demonstrating sustainable vision and/or behavior in the contemporary New Zealand film tourism industry. The article argues the need to adapt currently existing frameworks to film tourism theory and practice.

scholarly journals Living With the I-Word: Improvisation and its Alternates

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Labaree
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Insight Into

The word improvisation is burdened with limitations placed on it by changes occurring in Europe in the 19th century, the period when the model of the hyphenated performer-composer prevailing in Europe up to that point was being split into two specialties. By the 20th century, composition and improvisation had been cast in bronze as mutually defining opposites, the presumed starting point of any approach to how music is made and heard, regardless of historical period or cultural origin. As a way of creating a more critical approach to discourse dependent on the ubiquitous "I-word," this essay seeks to problematize it by focusing on the more general concept of variability itself, or mouvance, as the French literary scholar Paul Zumthor described it in his studies of medieval lyric poetry. More than a century of scholarship on the music of Chopin, the songs of the medieval troubadours, folk music of the British Isles and Balkans, and Turkish classical music—all repertoires which do not rely on the conventions of I-discourse—will provide examples of differing levels of tolerance for performer control of musical events, of different definitions of musicianship, and of different performance poetics. Reflex jazz-related I-genres intentionally play no role in this exercise, forcing us to reflect on I-qualities where we least expect to find them and thus to re-examine our dependence on the I-concept in our thinking about the full spectrum of music-making. None of the I-alternates offered here—musicianship, mouvance, control, variability, or poetics—can be considered competitors for the I-word’s universalizing pretensions, but rather offer insight into what I believe is the I-word’s real content.

Could Television Streaming Sites Lead the Charge for Film-Induced Tourism Post COVID?

2022 ◽  
pp. 217-239
Author(s):  
Jennifer Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Television Film ◽  
Tourist Behaviour ◽  
Insight Into

By focusing on television film-induced tourists, this chapter will contribute to a better understanding of tourist behaviour in relation to motivations for travel to filming locations. The chapter combines, analyses, and critiques the main debates raised by key authors in relation to identifying the motivational factors that prompt site-specific film tourism as well as providing contributions from this author's 2016 research on television film-induced tourism in Ireland. The chapter is divided into the following sections: a brief history of film and television and a review and discussion on film tourism, a breakdown of the different categories of film tourist and a summation of the various motivations for television induced film tourism, followed by an insight into the concept of authenticity in film tourism studies and the use of technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality as a means to provide a more immersive experience post COVID-19.

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